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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Worcester City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Worcester website
36,756 approved · 4,570 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Oct 1972 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
50, GREEN LANE RAINBOW HILL, WORCESTER WR3 8NY
Received 17 Mar 19874 Lansdowne Crescent Worcester WR3 8JE
Received 28 Nov 202259, LOWESMOOR, WORCESTER WR1 2RS
Received 5 Mar 197610, LANSDOWNE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1 1ST
Received 7 Feb 197461 Broad Street Worcester WR1 3LY
Received 9 May 1994Hall Garden House, Droitwich Road
Received 1 Dec 199214 Laurel Road Worcester WR4 9RT
Received 28 Mar 202426 Droitwich Road
Received 27 May 2010Nunnery Wood Sport Centre Spetchley Road Worcester WR5 2NL
Received 24 Jun 1994Block C3, (Apartments) Phase 4 Diglis Basin Diglis Dock Road
Received 28 Oct 200917 The Butts Worcester WR1 3PA
Received 4 Jul 20018-12, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER WR2 5AH
Received 10 Jan 198428, COMER GARDENS, WORCESTER WR 2 6JH
Received 17 May 1983Co-op, Lichfield Avenue, WR5 1NP
Received 18 Oct 200210 Pump Street WORCESTER WR1 2QT
Received 18 Jun 201938, MAYFIELD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 8NT
Received 16 Sept 197712 Westview Close Worcester WR2 5HG
Received 3 Jul 2002UNIT C, COSGROVE CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 3
Received 16 Nov 197310 Queenswood Drive, WR5 3SZ
Received 2 Jul 2010Brunswick Arms, 50 Malvern Road, WR2 4LQ
Received 29 May 200929, THE CROSS, WORCESTER WR 1 3PZ
Received 3 Sept 1985Unit 2 Berkeley Business Park, Wainwright Road, Worcester WR4 9FA
Received 21 May 2001UNIT 11,LOWESMOOR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
Received 16 Aug 197453 Britannia Square WORCESTER WR1 3HP
Received 24 Feb 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Worcester City Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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